Quiz (with answers) Introduction to IME August 2016

Part 1
1. Industrial Engineering can simply be defined as the branch of engineering that is concerned with the
A. Development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems
B. Engineering the industries of all types
C. Any engineering field is the subset of Industrial Engineering
D. Development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of processes
2. The following are some activities of Industrial Engineering, except for
A. Selection of processes and assembling methods
B. Design of facilities layout of buildings, machines, equipment
C. Design of physical equipment/ machines used for production
D. Selection and design of tools and equipment
3. An Industrial Engineer is required to have both skills of
A. Technical and managerial
B. Technical and accounting
C. Administrative and Professional skills
D. Marketing and Engineering
4. Complete the last word of this sentence Industrial Engineers help the world function more
efficiently and effectively.
5. Which of the following statements is more correct?
A. EFFICIENCY means DOING THE RIGHT THINGS
B. DOING THE RIGHT THINGS means EFFECTIVENESS
C. EFFECTIVENESS and EFFICIENCY have the same meaning
6. Which of the following statements is more correct?
A. EFFICIENCY means DOING THINGS RIGHT
B. DOING THE RIGHT THINGS means EFFICIENCY
C. EFFECTIVENESS and EFFICIENCY have the same meaning
7. Which organisation type changes the physical shapes and contents of the inputs transformed to get
output?
A. Service organisation
B. Supply organisation
C. Transport organisation
D. Manufacturing organisation
8. Organisation is a collection and interaction of resources aimed at producing .. or
providing
A. Goods, services
B. Products, goods
C. Services, supplies
D. Products, supplies
9. Any production system is typically like this transformation flow:
A. Input-process-output
B. Process-output
C. Input-output-process
D. Input-output